Jacob VanHouten is a biologist who came to the Czech Republic to explore environmental science at the Masaryk University Faculty of Science in Brno. Jacob arrived in Prague in early September to comfortably settle in and to prepare himself for a smooth start to teaching and doing research at the Department of Botany and Zoology, where he currently teaches Stream Ecology and Professional and Academic Writing in English. In this blog post, Jacob explains why he feels that the Czech Republic is the perfect fit for his Fulbright experience: "There are two things that I am very passionate about outside of my academic interests… those are ice hockey and hunting." While the local hunting community feels very much like his own back in Michigan, the atmosphere at the local ice hockey games of Kometa Brno feels like: "football (soccer) on steroids!" Everyone has their “COVID” story or tale of woe, so I might as well start by sharing mine, as it relates to my Fulbright expe...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.